JLPT N4 · い-adjective

細かい (komakai)

細かい (こまかい, komakai) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “small”. It appears in JLPT N4 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
こまかい
Romaji
komakai
Word class
い-adjective
Level
JLPT N4 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. small · い-adjective
  2. fine; minute · い-adjective
  3. minor; trivial · い-adjective
  4. sensitive; attentive · い-adjective
  5. careful; frugal; stingy · い-adjective

Example sentences

塩漬けキャベツを細かく切る。
Chop the pickled cabbage finely.
目の細かい織りのカーペットが一般的には価値が高い。
Tightly-knit carpets are generally more valuable.
わたしはこまかい点までしらべました。
I went into details.

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Conjugation of 細かい

い-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.

FormJapaneseReading
Present細かいこまかい komakai
Negative細かくないこまかくない komakakunai
Past細かかったこまかかった komakakatta
Negative past細かくなかったこまかくなかった komakakunakatta
Te-form細かくてこまかくて komakakute
Adverb (~ku)細かくこまかく komakaku
Conditional (~ba)細かければこまかければ komakakereba

Kanji in 細かい

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 細かい.

Source: JMdict entry 1295530 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.